AmCham-China

Buildings and Energy Efficiency: 
Transforming the Market to Meet Climate Change Targets
9:30 - 11:30 AM, Thursday, July 09 - Hilton Beijing Wanfujing Hotel

Which sector consumes the biggest part of global energy consumption? Transportation? Industrial? The answer is actually buildings!

In China, as in the rest of the industrialized world, buildings consume 30-40 percent of total energy use and finding ways to make them more energy efficient is one of the great challenges and opportunities of our time.  The Chinese government has identified this as a priority area and the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has established targets for cutting carbon emissions that will be impossible to meet without serious and credible improvement in the way buildings are designed, built and operated. 

What is the proper role of the private sector? Government? 
And, is the technology available today to solve the challenge or do we need a 'silver bullet' from future R&D? 

The World Business Council on Sustainable Development (www.wbcsd.org), a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development, has just issued a report entitled "Transforming the Market:  Energy Efficiency in Buildings".   The report, co-chaired by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and Lafarge, contains new modeling showing how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by 2050 – essential to meeting global climate change targets -- as well as recommendations for the private and public sectors for immediate action to transform the building sector.

William M. Sisson, UTC's Director, Sustainability and since 2006 the co-chair of this project (click here for bio), will provide a summary presentation of the report, including a market profile, modeling results and the actions that can and should be immediately taken and those that are needed to meet the shortfall. 

Program:
9:30 - 10:00 AM Registration
10:00 - 11:30 AM Presentation and Q&A

 
Venue:
Hilton Beijing Wangfujing, 5F
8, Wangfujing East Street, Dongcheng District
北京王府井希尔顿酒店
东城区王府井东街8号
Tel. 86 10 5812 8888

Registration:
The discounted registration price for this event is RMB 75 for members who register and pay online. Registration is RMB 120 for employees of member companies and RMB 200 for non-members. AmCham-China members who pay at the door will be charged RMB 100. If you have any inquiries, please send an e-mail to amchamevent@amchamchina.org. Registration deadline for this event is noon, Wednesday, July 8.